Ravenclaw, (1992-1999).Hair: dirty blonde, waist-length and straggly. Eyes: protuberant silvery grey eyes with very faint eyebrows
that give her a permanently surprised look, particularly since she doesn't
seem to blink as much as a 'normal' person. Distinguishing features: dreamy look, often seems to have turned
up wherever she is completely by accident.

Father:Xenophilius Lovegood (DH8). Mother: Pandora Lovegood (Pm), who died c. 1990, when Luna was
nine years old. Siblings: None. Spouse: Late in life, Luna married Rolf Scamander,
the grandson of naturalist Newt Scamander (BLC). Children: Twin sons, Lorcan and Lysander (YL).Home: A "great black cylinder" that "looks
like a giant rook" on the top of a hill a several miles to
the north of the village of Ottery
St. Catchpole, where the Weasley family lives
at The Burrow.Birthdate: c. 1981.
House:Ravenclaw,
same year as Ginny.Patronus: Hare (DH32). Interests: Like Hagrid, Luna is fascinated by magical
beasts.
Battles: Luna fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, the Battle of the Tower, and the Battle of Hogwarts.Notes: During her sixth year at Hogwarts, Luna, Ginny and Neville tried to steal the Sword of Gryffindor from Headmaster Snape's office; for punishment they were told to help Hagrid with something in the Forbidden Forest (DH15). Career: Luna became a
famous naturalist, and discovered and classified many
new species of animals during her career. She never found a Crumple-Horned
Snorkack. (BLC)

Possible name derivations
"loony" Eng. slang - 'crazy,' from "lunatic",
which is from luna = Latin, 'moon', derived from the belief that sanity is
affected by the phase of the moon. "love" + "good" could refer to the fact
that Luna shows the rather peculiar but admirable quality of loving those who
don't show much affection toward her (judging by the way she acts towards those
she knows are ridiculing her and stealing her things).

Profile by
Steve Vander Ark and Lisa Bunker
Luna Lovegood is a witch in Ginny's year who is considered a bit weird
by her classmates. She comes by this reputation honestly: Luna simply isn't
like the other kids at all. She dresses unusually, she proclaims her strange
beliefs openly, and in some ways she seems to be completely out of touch
with what's going on around her. She has a somewhat bizarre sense of appropriate
social behavior. For example, for a Quidditch match where the students
wave banners and wear rosettes in team colors, Luna sports a hat with a
life-sized lion's head on it which roars very realistically (OP19). While
commentating a match she ignored such mundane things as the score and speculated
on possible ailments afflicting the players (HBP19).

Luna takes after her father in having a
very open mind and consequently a number of unusual beliefs. Luna also
has some unusual habits: putting her wand behind
her ear for safekeeping, wearing odd items as jewelry such as a necklace
of butterbeer corks and radishes
for earrings. As it turns out, the "radishes" are Dirigible Plums,
which the Lovegoods cultivate and believe to "enhance the ability
to accept the extraordinary" (DH20).

Luna is often the butt of jokes. Her peculiar habits and odd beliefs make
her the target of teasing and ridicule. She is called Loony Lovegood behind
her back. Others steal her possessions all through the year and she is
forced to put up notices on the last day of term, asking for her things
back. Through it all, Luna is surprisingly patient and accepting. She doesn't
fight back or even seem to notice, although she is certainly aware of much
of the teasing. She knows that her nickname is Loony, for example, but
mentions it to Harry in a very matter-of-fact way (OP38).

Harry
met Luna for the first time aboard the Hogwarts Express on September 1, 1995.
He, Ginny, and Neville shared
a compartment with her on the train (OP10). She was reading a copy of The
Quibbler magazine upside down. She informed the others that her father
is the editor of The Quibbler, a magazine which most in the Wizarding
World consider a joke. She laughed a little too loud; she stared at the
other kids, and generally made an odd traveling companion. Harry privately
thought, when Cho Chang happened by their compartment
to say hello, that he would much rather have been sitting with "cooler" kids
than Luna and Neville.

Luna can see Thestrals (OP10),
having witnessed her mother's death when she was nine (OP38). Harry was
unsure about her, especially when it turned out that she was the only one
that he knew who could see the Thestrals. She told him that he was as sane
as she was, which wasn't all that comforting to hear. Over the course of
the year, Luna proved to be a faithful friend to Harry and his friends.
She supported the Gryffindor team against every other house except Ravenclaw.
She took a stand in favor of believing Harry in front of a group of other
fourth and fifth year students. She joined Dumbledore's
Army and worked hard. That training paid off in the Battle
of the Department of Mysteries, during which she fought bravely against
the Death Eaters in June 1996 -- the only
non-Gryffindor member to do so (OP35).

Perhaps Luna's greatest moment, however, came at the very end of the
1995-1996 school year. Harry was suffering terribly from the loss of his
godfather and he spent a frantic few hours trying to find some way to contact
Sirius. He tried methods similar to séances and contacted ghosts
to try to talk to the dead but found comfort in none of these things. When
Luna encountered Harry, she spoke of the comfort which she has in knowing
that she will see her dead mother again, which brought true comfort to
Harry (OP38). Just like being able to see Thestrals, Luna and Harry both
heard whispers from behind the veil in the Department
of Mysteries (OP35).

Luna
seems to be more serene and composed than most of her peers. She often
stares off into the distance and seems detached from what is going on around
her. Her deeply-held beliefs, although not understood or accepted by those
around her, do give her a certain dignity. By the end of the 1995-1996
school year, she was much more accepted as a friend and comrade by Harry,
Ron, and Hermione.

Luna lives with her father Xenophilius Lovegood,
in a house
shaped like a "rook" or round castle, near Ottery
St. Catchpole. The interior is decorated eccentrically as one would
expect from Luna, with bright paintings on everything. On her bedroom ceiling
she painted pictures of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville's faces
and entwined them with a golden chain of the repeated word "friends".
This touched Harry deeply (DH20).

Her mother was a "quite extraordinary" witch who loved to experiment.
When Luna was nine years old, one of her mother's spells went rather horribly
wrong and she was killed. Luna still misses her terribly sometimes, but
she finds comfort knowing that she'll see her again one day in the afterlife
(OP38). Luna resembles her mother (DH20).

Luna came into her own during her sixth year at Hogwarts. With Harry,
Ron, and Hermione gone from school, she joined Ginny and Neville to revive Dumbledore's
Army and resist the Death Eaters' influence
at Hogwarts. She was kidnapped on the Hogwarts Express on her way home
for the Christmas holidays (DH25) because of what Mr. Lovegood had been
writing in The Quibbler, and imprisoned in the cellar at the Malfoy
Mansion along with Ollivander. She was helpful
in their efforts to escape the Malfoy Mansion, and then fought bravely,
again, at the Battle of Hogwarts (DH31).

After leaving Hogwarts, Luna went on to become a very famous wizarding
naturalist, studying new species of creatures and marrying a fellow naturalist,
named Rolf, a grandson of the great Newt Scamander, and had twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander (BLC, YL).

It was Luna who suggested the lost
diadem of Ravenclaw might be the remaining Horcrux (DH29). She was
fond of reciting the phrase that is inscribed on the diadem: “Wit
without measure is man’s greatest treasure.” Perhaps in Luna’s
case, the phrase would be better quoted as “Wit and faith and love
are man’s greatest treasure. (OP10)” Luna possesses all of
these without measure and has proven to be a treasure indeed.

Luna
in the Movies
The character of Luna is played by Evanna Lynch (IMDb).